Danny Glover Movies

Want to know the best Danny Glover movies?  How about the worst Danny Glover movies?  Curious about Danny Glover box office grosses or which Danny Glover movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Danny Glover movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Danny Glover (1946-) is an American actor who has become one of the best character actors working today.  His IMDb page shows 186 acting credits from 1979-2017. This page ranks 51 Danny Glover movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television appearances, shorts, documentaries and movies not released in North America were not included in the rankings. 

Drivel Part:  So this request comes from Dan.  We generally go back and forth between current performers and classic performers.  Our request list is filled with classic performers but when it comes to the current performers the pickings can get a little thin.  With Glover off the list, the pickings got even thinner.

Mel Gibson and Danny Glover made 4 Lethal Weapon movies…all were box office hits

Danny Glover Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Danny Glover Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Danny Glover movies by co-stars of his movies
  • Sort Danny Glover movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Danny Glover movies by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort Danny Glover movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Danny Glover movie received.
  • Sort Danny Glover movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Danny Glover and Whoopi Goldberg in 1985’s The Color Purple

Possibly Interesting Facts About Danny Glover

1. Danny Lebern Glover was born in San Francisco, California in 1946.

2. Danny Glover’s first acting/theater involvement was with Conservatory Theater, which is located in San Francisco.  He moved to California for a chance at more acting roles.  He did not start acting until he was 28 years old.

3. One of Danny Glover’s first IMDb credits in is Clint Eastwood’s Escape From Alcatraz.  His role was “inmate”….so the next time you watch that movie be on the look out for a Glover appearance.

4. Danny Glover has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar®: 1984’s Places in the Heart, 1985’s The Color Purple and 1985’s Witness.

5.  Danny Glover’s 4 Lethal Weapon movies grossed over 1 BILLION in adjusted domestic box office gross.  The first three were Top 10 hits for the year….while Lethal Weapon 4 just barely missed the Top 10….when it finished 11th in 1998.

6.  Danny Glover has been married 2 times and has 1 child.

7.  Danny Glover Is one of only three actors to survive a hand-to-hand confrontation with a Predator. The other two being Arnold Schwarzenegger and Adrien Brody.

8.  Danny Glover’s all-time favorite movie is 1967’s In The Heat of The Night.

9.  Danny Glover is one of the busiest actors working.  From 2014 to 2016 he appeared in 29 movies or almost 10 a year.  Granted many were direct to home entertainment movies……but 10 movies a year is 10 movies a year.  Leonardo DiCaprio made 1 movie from 2014 to 2016.

10. Check out Danny Glover ‘s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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15 thoughts on “Danny Glover Movies”

  2. 1 In the minds of most people the movies with which Danny will most likely be associated are the Lethal Weapon ones. Many filmgoers at times compare the Lethal Weapon franchise with that of the Die Hard series. Both groups of films are fast-paced action movies, each has a top box office star heading the cast and both franchises made piles of money.

    2 However whilst John McClane of Die Hard is a ‘one man band’ the Lethal Weapon series reuses the buddy-buddy formula and very successfully. Danny Glover deserves credit along with Mel Gibson for making the formula work once again, Danny’s orthodox Roger Murtaugh contrasting and at the same time blending effectively with Gibson’s live-wire loose cannon Martin Riggs. Though Gibson and Willis are both talented entertaining stars I consider Mel to be the more versatile movie makerof the two.

    3 My favourite Glover movies the Lethal Weapon franchise apart were Predator 2 and Switchback with Dennis Quaid. Neither fared well in Glover’s Cogerson critic/audience ratings column but both did far better with IMDB scores. Wikipedia and IMDB posters for Switchback show that Glover and Quaid shared the creative compromise billing that was used for the stars of for example Towering Inferno (McQueen/Newman) Always (Dreyfuss/Holly Hunter) Righteous Kill (Pacino DeNiro)and The Formula (George C Scott/Brando).

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    1. Hey Bob.
      1. Thanks for the comment and visit to our Danny Glover page.
      2. I agree 100%….he will be forever be associated with Lethal Weapon….which pops into one’s mind when you hear his name….and after you think about him for a minute…The Color Purple pops into people’s minds….but Lethal Weapon is almost a reflex.
      3. I agree Die Hard and Lethal Weapon are like brothers….made of the same clothe
      4. As much as I like Bruce….I do believe you are right than Mel has the edge.,
      5. Switchback was ok….I liked Predator 2…..thanks for the billing information….as always interesting stuff.
      Hope all is well….:)

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  3. Roger Murtaugh gets his movie page, and why not? Good actor, he and Mad Mel had great chemistry in the Lethal Weapon movies.

    I’ve seen 23 of the 51 films listed, favorites include – the Lethal Weapon ‘quadrilogy’ (is that even a word?), Predator 2, Flight of the Intruder, Antz, Silverado and The Royal Tenenbaums.

    The Color Purple tops the critics and UMR charts. I saw it once on video a long time ago, it’s just not my cup of tea.

    Looking at the trivie – the Lethal Weapon tetralogy (now there’s a word) has grossed over a billion dollars adjusted domestic, that is impressive. Were the Die Hard’s as popular?

    Another winner Bruce. Vote Up!

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    1. Hey Steve….I agree he and Mel indeed had a great screen chemistry. I just barely have you beat as I am at 25 Danny Glover movies watched. I agree “qualrilogy” is a mouthful…though I do not even know if it is a word or not…..but it is now a UMR word…lol. Not to mention you roll out “tetralogy”….your dictionary made the move for sure.

      I am right there with you about The Color Purple..a good movie…but also a one and done move for me too. Sadly I think Lethal Weapon has Die Hard beat at the box office….but Die Hard has the lasting cultural relevance.

      Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Mr. Danny Glover.

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